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    Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Inscribed on...
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    South Island (redirect from Te Waipounamu)
    extinct Mount Horrible, which last erupted many thousands of years ago. Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the...
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    extinct Mount Horrible, which last erupted many thousands of years ago. Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the...
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    an area covering 12,607 km2 (4,868 sq mi), and a major part of the Te Wāhipounamu a UNESCO World Heritage Site established in 1990. The park is administered...
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    Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. It has been judged the world's top travel destination...
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    situated in Otago and Westland regions. The park forms part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Site. Mount Aspiring National Park was established in...
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    Glacier. In 1990, the park was included in the area designated as the Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Site. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation...
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    (980 ft) above sea level. The area surrounding the two glaciers is part of Te Wāhipounamu, a World Heritage Site park. The Waiho River emerges from the glacier...
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  • Tongariro National Park Te Wahipounamu The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of...
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    The area is managed by the Department of Conservation, and is part of Te Wahipounamu, a World Heritage Area. The area was used as a film location for The...
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    south of Haast Junction, on State Highway 6. The Haast region is in Te Wahipounamu – The South West New Zealand World Heritage, a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    Island national parks form Te Wahipounamu, another World Heritage Site. There are currently 13 national parks; a 14th, Te Urewera National Park, was disestablished...
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    situated within the Fiordland National Park and the wider region of Te Wahipounamu South West New Zealand World Heritage Area. According to Māori legend...
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    Te Anau lies at the south-eastern corner of the lake, close to the outflow. Most of the lake is within Fiordland National Park and the Te Wahipounamu...
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    Lakes Conservation Park tracks. All of these areas are part of the Te Wāhipounamu/South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area. In 2023, the Department...
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    viewpoints, it appears as a single point. Milford Sound is part of Te Wahipounamu, a World Heritage Site as declared by UNESCO. The imposing setting makes...
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    reserve is situated alongside Westland Tai Poutini National Park and Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Area. The Westland Current has also swept gravel and...
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    includes many of the West Coast's glaciers, most notably including the Fox / Te Moeka o Tuawe and Franz Josef / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere glaciers. The small...
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    Conservation UNESCO classification for the sub-antarctic islands Castaways: Wrecked on a subantarctic island – Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand...
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    Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, and Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku) Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand Tongariro National Park See also: List of World...
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    the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands. When it was inscribed in 1990, Te Wahipounamu incorporated and superseded two previously inscribed World Heritage...
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    historical, scientific or other significance to humanity. There are Te Wahipounamu, Tongariro National Park and the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands. Other...
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    Fiordland (Māori: Te Rua-o-te-Moko, "The Pit of Tattooing", and also translated as "the Shadowlands"), is a non-administrative geographical region of...
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    island in 1886, and housed in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa are unsubstantiated. The museum has not been able to locate...
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    (whakatapua) as a reserve in the names of certain chiefs, one of whom was Te Heuheu Tūkino IV (Horonuku), the most significant chief of the Māori Ngāti...
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    1863 and stood in the surf on 20 February. The river is set within the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Site. The majority of the surrounding land is publicly...
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    islands were already known to the Māori, who called one of the larger islands Te Taniwha ("The sea-monster"). The island group was first sighted by Europeans...
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  • Heritage Site: Tongariro National Park Neozealandia World Heritage Site: Te Wahipounamu Insulantarctica World Heritage Site: New Zealand Subantarctic Islands...
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    November 2009. Antonvanhelden (2012). "Our Far South". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 5...
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  • 550  Madagascar Andrefana Dry Forests (F) Natural 494  New Zealand Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand Natural 551 Tongariro National Park (F) Mixed...
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